Graduate Students

Hannah BaronHannah_Baron@Brown.eduHannah Baron is a second year graduate student in Comparative Politics. Her research focuses on the domestic and international politics of diverse Latin American countries. She is interested in questions of inequality, informal and formal institutions, and development, particularly the rights of women, indigenous peoples, and other historically excluded groups. She holds a B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, magna cum laude, from Harvard.

Michal Ben NoahMichal_Ben_Noah@Brown.eduMichal is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in political theory. She has a BA in PPE (Politics, Philosophy & Economics) and an MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michal's main research interests are the morality of labor and employment, exploitation, and feminist theory, in particular as it applies to "sexual employment" like prostitution and pornography. She is also interested in just war theory and pacifist theory, and the concepts of radicalism, hierarchy and impartiality. Her current work is on the morality of the global conditions of employment and their effect on freedom.

Puneet BhasinPuneet_Bhasin@Brown.eduPuneet Bhasin is a seventh year Ph.D. candidate in the subfields of International Relations and Political Theory. Puneet is interested in the political economy of financialization, corporate governance, economic inequality, and the history of economic thought. He holds a M.Sc. in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Prior to Brown, Puneet was working for management and technology consulting firms in New York City for nearly nine years followed by a brief experience with two policy research organizations in India, the Institute of Development Studies - Jaipur and the Center for Micro Finance - Ahmedabad.

Aimee Bourassa Aimee_Bourassa@Brown.edu Aimee Bourassa is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate from Canada studying comparative politics. She holds a B.Sc. in International Studies from the University of Montreal and a M.A. in Political Science from McGill University, both with a concentration in development studies. Her research interests include comparative federalism and decentralization, social policy (in particular social housing), and state-society relations, with a regional emphasis on Latin America.

Megean BourgeoisMegean_Bourgeois@Brown.eduMegean Bourgeois is a second year graduate student from Rumford, Maine specializing in political theory. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern Maine with minors in history and biology. Her research interests include identity politics, democratic theory and the political thought of Hannah Arendt, particularly her distinction between public and private life.

Daniel CarriggDaniel_Carrigg@Brown.edu Daniel T. Carrigg is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate in American Politics. He earned a B.A. in German and both B.A. and M.A. degrees in Political Science at the University of Rhode Island. Prior to attending Brown, Dan worked as a public servant in the State of Rhode Island, where he was Deputy Director at the Office of Attorney General, Chief of Program Development at the Office of Energy Resources, and Project Administrator at the NSF-funded Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. His interest is in public policy and consistency across multiple levels of the American system of federalism.

Kaustav ChakrabartiKaustav_Chakrabarti@Brown.eduKaustav Chakrabarti is a third year Ph.D. candidate from India. His primary interest lies in the comparative politics of civil war, especially on state response to insurgency. Prior to joining Brown, he worked at the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi based think-tank. There he studied how the interaction of coercive and non-coercive repertoires of counterinsurgency - elections, goods delivery, collective punishment, etc - informs India's strategy. Kaustav has also researched on Pakistan's Taliban insurgency and counterterrorism policy, and the role of international competition in state-making in Afghanistan. He has published in Foreign Policy, Economic and Political Weekly, and The Hindu. He holds an MA in Political Science from SUNY Binghamton, and a BS in Computer Science from Pune University.

Poulomi ChakrabartiPoulomi_Chakrabarti@Brown.eduCurriculum VitaePoulomi is a eighth year Ph.D. candidate in comparative politics. Her research interests include political economy of development, identity politics, public service delivery, and urbanization with a regional focus on South Asia. Poulomi's dissertation explores the relationship between social bases of power and the nature of state intervention in multi-ethnic democracies. She employs a number of methodological approaches to understand how different developmental regimes came to be constructed in post-independent India. Her dissertation has been supported by the International Growth Center, American Institute of India Studies, Smith Richardson Foundation, Tobin Project, Oxford University, Library of Congress, and various centers at Brown University. In other projects, she explores the transformation of identity politics in urban India and its impact of service delivery. Poulomi has a masters degree in international development from MIT and undergraduate degree in urban planning from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. Before starting graduate studies at Brown, she worked on issues related to decentralization and local governance at the World Bank.

Ryan EmenakerRyan_Emenaker@Brown.edu Curriculum VitaeRyan is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in American politics and political theory with a focus on American political development and public law. Ryan is currently on leave from his faculty position at College of the Redwoods—a small community college in northern California—in order to further his education. He holds a M.A. in government from The Johns Hopkins University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was awarded the Best Thesis in the area of Legal Studies. He also has an M.A. in social science and a B.A. in political science from Humboldt State University. Ryan has attended numerous sessions of the Supreme Court while serving as the Supreme Court analyst for several NBC affiliates. SCOTUSblog, the premier news and research site on the Supreme Court, has featured his research on Court-Congress relations and also published his article on why the Supreme Court should uphold the Voting Rights Act. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Legal Metrics, PS: Political Science, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. He has upcoming articles in the Journal of Political Science Education and the Encyclopedia of American Governance.

Jeffrey FeldmanJeffrey_Feldman@Brown.eduJeff Feldman is a second year graduate student in political theory. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College. His interests include the relationships between language, the economic, and the political. Previously, he served as Junior Fellow in the Energy and Climate program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Nicholas GeiserNicholas_Geiser@Brown.eduNick is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate studying political theory. His primary research interest concerns the requirements of justice for persons at the boundaries of social cooperation: the disabled, future people, and beneficiaries of emerging technologies for biomedical enhancement. He also has interests in collective action, collective responsibility, normative political economy, and early modern political thought.

Rob GraceRob_Grace@brown.eduRob Grace is a third year Ph.D. candidate with a focus on international relations. Specific research interests include governmental engagement in the development and application of international laws and norms in relation to armed conflicts and internal disturbances, international fact-finding, and the politics of humanitarian action. His professional experience includes serving as Senior Associate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, where he has led a multi-year research project on monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding; co-hosted and produced monthly webcasts on humanitarian action; and developed e-learning modules for the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard. His writing has been published by the Journal of Conflict & Security Law, the European Society of International Law, Foreign Policy in Focus, the Foreign Policy Association, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action, and Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection. He has an MA in Politics from New York University and a BA from Vassar College.

Paul M. B. GutierrezPaul.Gutierrez@brown.edu Paul is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate specializing in political theory. His research interests span the history of political, social, and economic thought; theories of colonialism, labor, and race; and constitutional law, legal history, and American political development. He is currently working on a political theory of the corporate form that draws on these interests. Paul holds a B.A. magna cum laude from the College of William & Mary, where he majored in government and economics, and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he focused on participatory governance and deliberative democracy. Paul has previously worked on labor policy in the Philippines and Nepal with the International Labour Organization (ILO). He has also undertaken field studies on participatory budgeting in Cambodia with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Paul is a NSF/IGERT Fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow.

Oddny HelgadottirOddny_Helgadottir@Brown.eduOddný is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate in International Relations and Comparative Politics. She is primarily interested in international political economy, financial and economic policy, financial crises and economic ideas. Oddný is from Iceland and first came to Brown on a Fulbright scholarship to complete a Master's in Public Policy. She has a B.F.A. from the Icelandic Academy for the Arts and worked as a print and broadcast journalist and independent writer and filmmaker in Iceland before coming to the United States.

Rehan JamilRehan_Jamil@Brown.eduRehan Rafay Jamil is a third year Ph.D. candidate studying comparative politics from Karachi, Pakistan. His research interests include political economy of development, distributive politics, informal service delivery and urban governance issues. He has a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in History and Politics with High Honors from Oberlin College. Prior to coming to Brown, Rehan worked with the World Bank's Social Protection and Labor practice in Washington Dc, focusing on social safety nets and labor markets in South Asia.

Colin JohnsonColin_Johnson@Brown.edu Curriculum VitaColin Johnson defended his dissertation in July 2017. Colin is from Aledo, Texas. He received his B.A. in International Studies from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and a M.A. in Political Science from Brown University. His interest areas are Comparative Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on politics surrounding the management of international migration and population growth, but also includes development, ethnic conflict, and xenophobia in public discourse. His geographic specialization is Russia and post-Soviet Eurasia, though he is interested in the aforementioned issues in hybrid regimes worldwide. He was an Interdisciplinary Opportunity Fellow at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University (2015-2016). His year-long dissertation fieldwork in Kazan, Russia was funded by an IREX IARO Fellowship (2013-2014), and his research was also supported by an NSF-IGERT Fellowship at the Watson Institute (2012-2013). Colin also received a Teaching Fellowship in Spring 2015 from the Department of Political Science to teach "Survey of Comparative Politics." He was a trainee in the Graduate Program in Development, in the GIS Methods Institute, and in the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. This year Colin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian and East European Studies.

Bhanu JoshiBhanu_Joshi@Brown.eduBhanu is a first year graduate student in comparative politics. Bhanu is interested in the political economy of India, local governance particularly that of the cities in India, and electoral behaviour.Previously, Bhanu was an Associate with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. He has a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Delhi.

Rajeev KadambiRajeev_Kadambi@Brown.eduRajeev is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate in political theory. His research is on the indistinction of the ethico-political as a mode of spiritual being in the world. He is currently working on his dissertation that studies the idea of revolution in anticolonial thinking from the Indian subcontinent during early and mid-twentieth century. While the dissertation explores a plurality of ethical approaches, it centrally examines the transformative potentialities of nonviolent disobedience as a redescription of self and subjectivity. Presently, he is a Graduate Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities for 2017/18.

Bill KringWilliam_Kring@Brown.eduCurriculum VitaeBill Kring is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science whose subfields are international relations and comparative politics. His research interests lie at the nexus of international political economy, comparative politics, and development. He received a B.A. in International Relations (2011) from Boston University with magna cum laude honors and an M.A. in International Affairs (2013). He was the recipient of the International Relations Department's award for Excellence in International Relations (2013). In examining Basel III, Bill's Master's thesis (Banking on Regulatory Failure: An Integrative Revision of International Financial Regime Change) provides a powerful account of how various parties to the negotiations deployed coercive, informational, and ideational power and proposes a synthesis of realist and constructivist theories of international regime change. Bill also has extensive work experience in Hong Kong and China writing economic forecasts and risk assessments for a logistics company expanding into emerging markets.

Kristine LiKristine_Li@Brown.eduKristine is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in comparative politics. Her research interests include comparative political economy with a focus on state-business relations, as well as comparative state building in the modern time. She is also interested in comparative historical analysis in political science, especially how institutions evolve and change over time. Kristine received her M.A from Harvard University.

Jared LogginsJared_Loggins@Brown.eduJared Loggins is a third-year graduate student specializing in Political Theory and American Political Development. His research project traces articulations of loss and sacrifice by 19th and 20th century American black intellectuals alongside their criticisms of economic liberalism. Other interests include history of political thought (modern to contemporary), democratic theory, critical legal studies, and black political thought. Jared is a Minority Fellow at the American Political Science Association. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 2015.

Ferris LupinoFerris_Lupino@Brown.eduFerris Lupino is a fifth year PhD candidate in political theory. His project explores the reception of the classical tradition in American political thought and the uses of that reception in debates about racial exclusion and subordination. More broadly, he specializes in democratic theory, ancient political thought, the Black radical tradition, and classical reception studies. Prior to graduate school, Ferris received his B.A. in political science at the University of Washington where he studied Hannah Arendt's reading of Tocqueville.

Cory ManentoCory_Manento@Brown.eduCory Manento is a third year Ph.D. candidate specializing in American Politics. His research interests include political parties, elections and campaigns, public opinion, and legislative process. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Central Connecticut State University with Magna Cum Laude honors. Prior to attending graduate school, Cory worked as a Legislative Operations Specialist for the Connecticut General Assembly.

Michael Marcusa Michael_Marcusa@Brown.eduMichael Marcusa is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate specializing in Comparative Politics. He holds a B.A with Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors in Government and Middle Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College and was awarded the Rockefeller Prize for the best senior honors thesis in the field of Comparative Politics. Michael's research agenda seeks to study the complex inter-play between tangible state institutions and ideational variables like identity, ideology, and culture. He is undertaking these scholarly efforts with particular reference to political development issues in the Arab World. A proficient speaker and reader of Arabic, Michael has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa. Before coming to Brown, he spent seven months studying Arabic literary and social theoretic texts in Cairo, Egypt as a Dartmouth Paul L. and Neil T. McGorrian Fellow.

Jerome MarstonJerome_Marston@Brown.eduJerome Marston is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate studying comparative politics and international relations. His research focuses on democratization and human rights, as well as the state and rival non-state actors, such as drug cartels. Although these thematic foci are primarily applied to Latin America, particularly the Southern Cone, Jerome's interests span to other regions as well. After graduating from Colorado State University (magna cum laude) with a BA in political science and minors in Spanish and German, Jerome attended Boston College, where he received an MA in political science and a certificate in Human Rights and International Justice. In addition, Jerome has consulted for Physicians for Human Rights, an NYC-based NGO, in the Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones Program and the Development Department.

Rebecca Bell MartinRebecca_Martin@Brown.eduRebecca Bell Martin is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate studying Comparative Politics and International Relations. Her current research sheds light on the political consequences of violence in democracies. More broadly, her expertise includes: political behavior and non-voting forms of political participation in the Global South; political violence and violent non-state actors; public security in the Global South; and the sociocultural manifestations of power and violence. Her methodological expertise includes both qualitative and quantitative approaches and her research program includes statistical analysis, experiments, surveys, open-ended interviews, ethnography, and intensive fieldwork. Rebecca earned her M.A. in International Studies from the Josef Korbel School and earned her B.A. with honors from Whittier College, where she triple-majored in Political Science, Cultural Anthropology, and Spanish Language.

Rachel MeadeRachel_Meade@Brown.eduRachel Meade is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in Comparative and American politics. Her dissertation investigates the processes by which citizens connect with populist political parties, groups, and leaders, and form their conceptions of "us" and "them". Her primary methods are participant observation and interviews with members of local political groups in the U.S. and Argentina, as well as surveys and survey experiments to reveal how people process political news and populist discourse. Other research interests include political identity, emotion in politics, nationalism, and party-society linkages. She was an NSF-IGERT fellow at the Watson Institute (2014-2016). She has a B.A. in history and Latin American Studies from Bard College.

Gunnar MokoschGunnar_Mokosch@Brown.eduGunnar is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Rostock, Germany. He holds a BA in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. In his research, Gunnar focuses on political economy, with emphasis on Europe and East Asia.

Sean MonahanSean_F_Monahan@Brown.eduCurriculum VitaeSean Monahan is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in political theory from Philadelphia, PA. Sean has a BA in International Relations from the College of Wooster and a MA in Political Science from Temple University. His interests lie in democratic theory, particularly Marxist conceptions of freedom and the social and political requirements of human emancipation. He is also interested in the historical development of socialist critiques of capitalism that emerged out of liberal and republican political traditions.

Rachel NusbaumRachel_Nusbaum@Brown.eduRachel Nusbaum is a first year graduate student in political theory. She holds a B.A. from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Masters in Public Policy from American University. She has previously worked for HIAS, a refugee protection nonprofit, as well as for the ACLU and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Shishav ParajuliShishav_Parajuli@Brown.eduShishav Parajuli is a fourth year graduate student from Kathmandu, Nepal. Shishav completed his BA in the Great Books program from St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM, and recently received his MA in Politics from Villanova University, PA. His research interests are violence and ideology as state apparatus, the process of institutionalizing social norms, the particular instances of cultural legitimization of structural violence to form a hegemonic condition, and the process by which multi-agential social movements /actors are capable of presenting a common resistance. He is also interested in the broad arrays of Marxist and critical theories, Greek tragedies, Russian Literature and history of Maths and Sciences.

Erik PeinertErik_Peinert@Brown.eduErik Peinert is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in comparative and international political economy. His research interests focus on corporate and financial regulation, business-state relations, and economic ideology, specifically in Europe and Eurasia. Originally from Massachusetts, he has a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and worked for several years as a paralegal prior to graduate school.

Michelle RoseMichelle_Rose1@Brown.eduMichelle Rose is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory. Her research interests include the role of social sentiment and moral motivation in sustaining a free society, cultural pluralism, social transformation, and democratic theory. Her work draws on the traditions of Pragmatism and African American political thought. Her current project focuses on the critical pragmatism of Alain LeRoy Locke, his work on value theory, affect, and cultural pluralism, as well as the historical relationship between Locke's thought and German intellectuals from the 19th and early 20th century. Michelle holds a MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and a B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, from Loyola Marymount University.

Noga RotemNoga_Rotem@Brown.eduNoga is a fifth year Ph.D candidate in Political Theory. Her project reads paranoia as a political affect in the work of Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hobbes, and Richard Hofstadter. In reading these thinkers her project works to achieve two goals: to explore the political conditions/crises prone to produce paranoid subjectivities; and, to think of paranoia not only as a political diagnosis used by political thinkers, but also as a potentially "worldly" and politicizing affect. Noga received her B.A and M.A, summa cum laude, from Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva.

Selim Can SazakSelim_Can_Sazak@Brown.eduSelim Sazak is a second year graduate student in International Relations. His research focuses on strategy and security. His interests include the theory and practice of nuclear deterrence, dynamics of nuclear proliferation, alliance politics, civil-military relations and security policy-making, particularly in the Middle East. Selim is also a non-resident fellow at the Abu Dhabi-based think tank, Delma Institute. Previously, he was an adjunct fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive think-tank based in New York, and held positions at the Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs and NATO Center for Excellence on Defense Against Terrorism. He received an M.I.A. in International Security Policy from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs on a Fulbright fellowship, and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Bilkent University in Turkey.

Marie SchenkMarie_Schenk@Brown.eduMarie Schenk is a second year graduate student in American Politics at Brown University. Her research interests include education policy, democratic engagement, and quantitative methods. Previously, she worked at an education nonprofit in Brockton, MA and as a paralegal in Washington, DC. She earned a BA in Government, cum laude, from Smith College.

Daniel SchulteDaniel_Schulte@Brown.eduDaniel Schulte is a first-year graduate student in Comparative Politics and International Relations. He is particularly focused on the politics of Turkey, Russia, and Eastern Europe. His research interests include ethnopolitics, conflict, secularism, religion in politics, and nationalism. He holds a B.A. in History and Literature (Russian) from Harvard College and a Masters of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Jason SchultzJason_Schultz@Brown.eduJason is a first year graduate student in international relations. His research interests include civil war, post-conflict stability, violent non-state actors, and the effects of terrorism, crime, and corruption in international relations. Jason is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and is a member of the Advanced Strategic Planning and Policy Program (ASP3). He earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1999), a Master of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University (2004), a MPS in Supply Chain Management from Pennsylvania State University (2013), and a MMAS in Operational Art from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College (2016).

Aaron SternAaron_Stern@Brown.edu Aaron Stern is a second year graduate student in political theory. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University. Before attending Brown University, he worked as a college writing tutor. His research interests include the role of identity and representation in democratic theory.

Jan StockbrueggerJan_Stockbruegger@Brown.eduJan is a third year Ph.D. candidate in International Relations. Before joining Brown he was a research assistant at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, UK, and at the Institute for Development and Peace, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Jan holds a M.A. in African Studies (Research) from Leiden University in the Netherlands, and a B.A. in African Studies from Bayreuth University in Germany. He has worked with NGOs and International Organizations in the field of security cooperation and peace-building in Africa. Jan's research is centrally concerned with the evolution of international security orders at sea. He has studied contemporary piracy and maritime security governance in the Western Indian Ocean since 2010. His research is grounded in International Practice Theory. Jan's co-authored work has been published in Journal Articles as well as in edited volumes and working papers. Jan is also the lead editor of piracy-studies.org, a research portal for maritime security studies.

Jinxu TangJinxu_Tang@Brown.eduJinxu Tang is a third year graduate student in comparative politics. He obtained the degree of Master of Arts from the NYU Department of Politics in 2014 and has a B.A. from Xiamen University in China. His research focuses on how geographic endowments and historical events shaped comparative development in the modern world by integrating the use of GIS.

Timothy TurnbullTimothy_Turnbull@Brown.edu Tim Turnbull is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate originally from Laguna Beach, California. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, with Highest Honors in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his A.M. in Political Science from Brown University. Tim's interests span international political economy and international security, and he is particularly interested in economic sanctions, state capitalism, realist theories of IPE, and the politics of unipolarity.

Sanne VerschurenSanne_Verschuren@Brown.eduSanne Verschuren is a third year Ph.D. candidate from Belgium, specializing in international relations. Her research focuses on the development of international norms in the context of armament, innovation in military technology and arms control. She is also interested in other security and defense questions, such as the export of conventional weapons and small arms. Sanne holds a LL.B. and LL.M. Magna Cum Laude from Ghent University and received a MSc with Distinction in Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Prior to attending Brown University, Sanne interned with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Flemish Peace Institute.

Gauri WagleGauri_Wagle@Brown.edu Gauri Wagle is a third year Ph.D. candidate. She holds a B.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a M.A. in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University. She is interested in international political economy, the role of finance, and the role of state and international institutions.

Marcus WaltonMarcus_Walton@Brown.eduMarcus is a sixth year doctoral candidate. His research is on contested social policies in Africa (specifically subsidies, transfers, and market interventions). His dissertation is based on 16 months of fieldwork in Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa from 2013-2016. His broader interests include development, language and politics, post-colonial history, and political economy. His research was supported by an NSF-IGERT Fellowship at the Watson Institute (2013-2015). Marcus has a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to coming to Brown, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Cairo, Egypt (2010-2011).

Jo-Shin (Amy) WangJo-Shin_Wang@Brown.eduAmy is a first year graduate student in International Relations. Her research interests include international security studies, conflict and intervention, territorial disputes, and foreign policy analysis in the Asia Pacific region. She received her B.A. in Chinese Literature with a minor in Political Science from National Taiwan University and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University.

Joshua WeitzJoshua_Weitz@Brown.edu Joshua Weitz is a first year graduate student in international relations. His research concerns the political economy of corporate governance, inequality, the politics of ideas, economic development, democracy, interest groups, propaganda, and business organization and the state. Prior to coming to Brown he worked as a research associate at the Academic-Industry Research Network. He holds a BA in sociology from the City University of New York, School of Professional Studies where he graduated magna cum laude.

Kenneth WhiteKenneth_White@Brown.edu K.R. White is a third year graduate student in American Politics. His research interests include American political culture, education policy, and public corruption. Outside the classroom, he has worked for a variety of institutions including the Center for American Progress, the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority, and XL Catlin. He earned a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from Union College.

Cadence WillseCadence_Willse@Brown.eduCurriculum VitaeCadence Willse is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in American Politics. She received her B.A. in History and Political Science from St. Mary ’s College of Maryland, and her M.A. in Urban Education Policy from Brown University. Prior to attending Brown, Cadence worked at Summer Search Boston, a leadership development program for low-income students in the Boston Public Schools. Cadence’s research interests are urban politics, community development, and education policy.

Zhe ZhangZhe_Zhang1@Brown.eduZhe Zhang is a third year graduate student studying comparative politics. He received his M.A. in political science from Columbia University, a M.A. in journalism from University of Oklahoma, and a B.A. from Beijing University, China. His research interests include ethnic politics, nationalism, religion and secularism studies, and China studies. Before studying in political science, Zhe worked for about 8 years as a journalist in China.